He notes that DMF could rapidly replace ethanol, because it not only provides more energy but also has a higher boiling point (allowing DMF to blend more easily with gasoline) and it does not react with water (ethanol
absorbs atmospheric water vapor, which degrades its potency).
Not exact matches
Instead of dissipating into space, the infrared radiation that is
absorbed by
atmospheric water vapor or carbon dioxide produces heating, which in turn makes the earths surface warmer.
In a follow - up, he confirmed that under simulated Martian
atmospheric conditions, sodium salts do
absorb water vapor and form a liquid solution.
Using
atmospheric devices on a 150 - foot tower in the Morgan - Monroe State Forest, IU researchers measured how much
water vapor and gases were being
absorbed and released by the forest.
It also seems that even though the selective absorption of specific energy bands by different molecules IS the mechanism to add energy to the air, the energy
absorbed by CO2 & especially
Water Vapor is extremely rapidly dispersed by molecular collisions to ALL the components of the atmosphere, so that the N2 and O2 also heatup, and all the
atmospheric components assume a uniform temperature (ie global warming).
I think that they will find that with a long enough path length,
atmospheric water vapor tends to regulate the energy
absorbed at and around the ocean thermocline layer at about 100 meters.
The convective heat / mass transfer due to
water dwarfs any radiative forcing; besides — just on optical depth alone, any re-radiated LWIR from
atmospheric CO2 would be IMMEDIATELY
absorbed by the much higher concentration of
water vapor in the atmosphere (aka clouds!)
Thus, the phase change of
water from liquid to gas, after
absorbing photons, is a feedback, the absorption of photons and the emission of photons
atmospheric water vapor is a forcing, but the photons released when gaseous
water become liquid
water is a feedback.
Fortunately, as depicted in Figure 2 (orange «thermal down surface» arrow), some of this energy does stay in the atmosphere, where it is sent back toward Earth by clouds, released by clouds as they condense to form rain or snow, or
absorbed by
atmospheric gases composed of three or more atoms, such as
water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), and methane (CH4).
The only way CO2 could
absorb any more IR than it is already
absorbing is if 1) the surface started re-emitting more IR, which could only happen if more sunlight reached the surface, or 2)
atmospheric water vapor levels dropped, freeing up more IR to be
absorbed by CO2, in which case, warming would not occur, because that radiation was already being
absorbed by the
water vapor that disappeared.